The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'. Harold Begbie

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       Harold Begbie

      The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664600547

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       CHAPTER I ToC

       AN INTRODUCTORY FRAGMENT ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE SKIPPED

       CHAPTER II ToC

       THE FAMILY

       CHAPTER III ToC

       HOME LIFE AND HOLIDAYS

       CHAPTER IV ToC

       CARTHUSIAN

       CHAPTER V ToC

       THE DASHING HUSSAR

       CHAPTER VI ToC

       HUNTER

       CHAPTER VII ToC

       SCOUT

       CHAPTER VIII ToC

       THE FLANNEL-SHIRT LIFE

       CHAPTER IX ToC

       ROAD-MAKER AND BUILDER

       CHAPTER X ToC

       PUTTING OUT FIRE

       CHAPTER XI ToC

       IN RAGS AND TATTERS

       CHAPTER XII ToC

       THE REGIMENTAL OFFICER

       CHAPTER XIII ToC

       GOAL-KEEPER

       SIR GEORGE WHITE

       MAJUBA

       BRONKERSPRUIT, INGOGO, LANG'S NEK, KRUGERSDORP

       Table of Contents

Page
Major-General R.S.S. Baden-Powell Frontispiece
Professor Baden Powell 7
Mrs. Baden-Powell 11
B.-P. reflecting on the After-deck of the Pearl 21
Rev. William Haig-Brown, LL.D. 41
The Dashing Hussar (B.-P. at 21) 61
"Beetle" 79
The Family on Board the Pearl 107
"Viret in Æternum" 179
Goal-Keeper 201

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      You will be the first to grant me, honoured sir, that after earnestness of purpose, that is to say "keenness," there is no quality of the mind so essential to the even-balance as humour. The schoolmaster without this humanising virtue never yet won your love and admiration, and to miss your affection and loyalty is to lose one of life's chiefest delights. You are as quick to detect the humbug who hides his mediocrity behind an affectation of dignity as was dear old Yorick, of whom you will read when you have got to know the sweetness of Catullus. This Yorick it was who declared that the Frenchman's epigram describing gravity as "a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind," deserved "to be wrote in letters of gold"; and


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